Glance at the Past

- Willie Fernandez and Frank Wright, tiring of school life, decided to take a look around in the world. They started down the coast Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock and made Albion by night. Monday morning they started for Point Arena but were stopped four miles below Albion by Deputy Sheriff Ball. Jack Nelson went down in his auto Monday afternoon and brought the boys home. Willie and Frank are both 15 years of age and possessed the large sum of six dollars, but they said that it didn't go very far when they had to pay a dollar for a room and fifty cents a meal. They said that they ran away because they were kept after school to learn poetry but never the less they seemed satisfied to get back to Fort Bragg.

- Julius Morris is now at work putting in a cement curb in front of Sam Shafsky's lot on Fir Street, east of the Jefferson residence. It is reported that Mr. Shafsky intends to put up a fine residence on his lot next year.

- Mr. Diegi had his right ankle badly injured Sunday afternoon when the rig he was driving turned over. The accident occurred on the grade the other side of Caspar at the sharp turn. He was driving up the grade and Peter Hansen, of Caspar, was coming this way in his auto. As Peter rounded the turn, he turned out and gave Diegi plenty of room to pass but his horse, getting frightened, tried to climb the bank and capsized the rig. Diegi was accompanied by his wife and children and two friends, but he was the only one that was hurt. He was brought up to the Fort Bragg Hospital and is improving nicely.

72 YEARS AGO April 27, 1941

- On this Thursday evening, April 24, at 7:30 p.m., Dr. N. Wing Mah, professor of Political Science at the University of California, will speak to the Fort Bragg Community Forum on "American Policy on the Pacific." Dr. Mah is one of California's most distinguished Chinese writers, lecturers and frequent visitor to the vast country now at war with Japan. He has served several times as an official in the Chinese government. He will speak from personal knowledge and as a recognized authority to U. S. policy in the Pacific area.

- Always a colorful event, the annual California Rhododendron Festival at Russian Gulch State Park and Fort Bragg on May 3 and 4 promises to be an outstanding Redwood Empire attraction this year. On Sunday, an abalone feed has been arranged for noon at Russian Gulch with plenty of abalone, beans and coffee, followed by a Carol Ponts and Richard Reese skating exhibition. Folk dances and a varied program of entertainment, including specialty dances by little redheaded Sylvia Ruth Fitch, and various groups of dancers and entertainers from Point Arena to Rockport will perform.

50 YEARS AGO April 25, 1963

- Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Bishop, of Fort Bragg, are the parents of a son born at Redwood Coast Hospital April 20. The new arrival has been named Gary Dan and weighed eight pounds.

- Mr. and Mrs. James B. Webb, Sr., are adding their names to the roster of first-time parents with the birth of a son, James Bennette Webb, Jr. The young man made his arrival at Community Hospital April 20 and weighed eight pounds.

- New Pharmacist Mr. and Mrs. James Barekman, of Fort Bragg, are the parents of a son born at Community Hospital April 21 weighing six pounds. The newest addition to the Barekman family has been named James Scott.

- A party for Joni Gill, celebrating her eighth birthday, was held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gill.

30 YEARS AGO April 27, 1983

- Kris Dempsey and Becky Danner were named 1983 United States National Award winners in journalism Friday. Dempsey and Danner, who attend Fort Bragg High School, were nominated for the National Award by English teacher Paul Richter. Steve Barekman is the only other student from FBHS thus far named to the academy this year for his aptitude in mathematics. Kris and Becky are the daughters of Fred and Joyce Dempsey and Fred and Betty Danner.

- At Coast Twin Cinemas: Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong in "High Road to China" and "The Year of Living Dangerously" with Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver.

- Most of the filming in Mendocino for "Racing With the Moon" will be done during a three-day period next week and will require some traffic blockage. The tentative shooting schedule for Fort Bragg, expected to be released today, is centered at Laurel Street between California Western Railroad and the Franklin Street intersection. There will be some rerouting of traffic to allow filming of the Green Parrot a movie theater in the film to the Treasure Cove to keep newer model cars, out preserving the early "40s look.